Madam not allowed to remarry

Chapter 383 Blood Case 2
Xuan Fu didn't notice it, and continued on her own: "So, he can't be from Riyue Island. Now the palace is heavily guarded, and even a fly can't fly in. How can he get in with this little ability?"

Xuan Fu reminded Zhong Ning: "Then, if it wasn't someone who brought it in, it was someone from the palace?"

"Your Majesty." Meng Baiyun, who had been silent all this time, had to remind him of a detail, "He doesn't kill anyone, so what's the point of killing a court lady? Have you ever thought about this problem?"

Everyone looked at Meng Baiyun.

Meng Baiyun didn't make a fool of himself: "Instead of speculating on someone who is unknown and unwilling to confess, it is better to start with this court lady. Look, the emperor, this court lady is a court lady of the Yeting Division. Most of the maids of the Yeting Division are Those who haven’t been assigned masters are usually assigned to work in various bureaus, and this court lady obviously used to work in the Needlework Division.”

The rest of the maids looked at Meng Baiyun and were not surprised: "That's right, Li Xiang was originally working in the needlework department, doing some mending and embroidery."

Meng Baiyun picked up the corpse's hand: "The needle holes on her fingers and the broken skin on her knuckles show that she is not good at sewing, and she often pricks or scratches herself, but this is not the point, what I want to say is also Not this one, but what I want to talk about is her hands, with slender fingers, white and smooth, stretch out your hands."

All the maids present stretched out their hands, without exception, they were very rough, the winter was cold, and some hands had frostbite, but now the frostbite subsides in spring, leaving behind spots of red spots.

Let's look at Lixiang's hand again.

A court lady said: "Lixiang often wipes her hands with a kind of balm, and her hands are thinned and whitened. We are all very envious."

Long Aohan looked at Meng Baiyun with appreciation in his eyes.

Meng Baiyun became more confident from his admiration, let go of Lixiang's hand and pinched her chin, the blood made her stomach uncomfortable, she resisted, "I'm afraid not only the hands, but also the face is carefully cared for." , even her hair is rubbed with top-quality sweet-scented osmanthus oil, which is fragrant but not greasy, and it protects and nourishes her hair. It can be said that she knows how to take care of it."

"That's right, Lixiang's entire drawer is full of nursing things. It is said that her brothers in the family sent them to the palace."

"There is a brother in the family who has this money, can he still send her to be a court lady? Can he still let her stay in the Yeting Division, spend some money to arrange a master for her." Meng Baiyun stood up and looked at the group of court ladies , "Do you know the price of a bottle of premium osmanthus oil?"

Everyone shook their heads, yes, most of the little maids were sold into the palace, and they have not been assigned masters yet, where have they seen such precious things.
However, one of the show girls whispered: "If it is the best osmanthus oil, it is refined from the September golden osmanthus in the south of the Yangtze River. It is one or two thousand gold. The lesser ones are mostly osmanthus, but a bottle is as big as a palm. , It costs a few hundred taels. Even for low-grade osmanthus head oil, the price of a bottle is enough for a poor family to live for a year."

The maids opened their mouths in surprise.

Some of the show girls also showed surprise.

Obviously, they couldn't afford these prices.

So, let me ask a court lady, how can she afford such expensive osmanthus oil.

"You're probably right. The emperor should be clear that there are very few of this top-grade sweet-scented osmanthus oil on the market. Most of them were paid tribute to the palace and kept by the treasure house. Reward it down."

Meng Baiyun looked at Zhong Ning.

Zhong Ning frowned: "These things were not handled by me in the past, they were all arranged by the Queen Mother. As long as you go to the Sibaoku and adjust the record books, you will know which palace the hair oils have gone to."

"You don't need to investigate too far. The older this osmanthus hair oil, the more mellow its aroma and better hair conditioning effect. Lixiang's hair has a weak smell. It should be a new oil in recent years."

"I know."

Zhong Ning immediately sent someone to investigate in the treasure house.

Meng Baiyun suggested not to move the scene, so before that, everyone didn't leave and stayed in Chuxiu Palace.

Knowing that Meng Baiyun fainted from blood, Long Aohan asked someone to find a piece of white silk and covered Lixiang's body.

Meng Baiyun felt better in his stomach.

Out of sight is pure.

After waiting for a while, Si Baoku's osmanthus oil's record was delivered.

Zhong Ning took a look, and his face suddenly became cold.

Meng Baiyun went forward to join in the fun.

Good guy, the queen mother was in power a few years ago, the old lady really used the word palm to the fullest.

In recent years, the empress dowager didn't send half a bottle of hair oil as a tribute to any palace, and used it on her own head.

Meng Baiyun remembered her honor, tsk tsk, she was about the same age as the imperial concubine, but her face was ten years older than the imperial concubine.

Women's maintenance is important, but the mentality is the most true.

She is playing with power, mentally and mentally exhausted, relying on these hair oils to keep her face youthful, tsk tsk, it is useless.

Now, things are clear.

Zhong Ning closed the ledger with a gloomy expression: "It's all gone, Ao Han, Sheng Xiao, follow me."

Meng Baiyun went to join in the fun again.

"I'll go as well."

"kindness."

The whole group dispersed, Lixiang's body was handed over to Habayashi Wei, and the assassin was escorted into the dungeon.

When we arrived at the Qiankun Palace, when the gate was closed, Zhong Ning was furious: "I cared about brotherhood, filial piety, and left their mother and son alive. I didn't expect that one of them would collude with me outside and rebel against me, and the other was in the palace." I can't live in peace."

It was the first time Meng Baiyun saw Zhong Ning furious.

Seeing the official, he has a lazy, evil, cynical demeanor.

I have also seen him forgetting to eat and sleep, playing hard and earnestly.

He thought that after all these years of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, he had learned the ability to not be surprised when he left.

Unexpectedly, this incident caused him to burst into a thunderbolt, and his rage reached this point.

Long Aohan's brows were deeply locked: "Your Majesty, it seems that the maid was killed because she knew something about the Empress Dowager, and this matter is likely to be related to the conspiracy of rebellion. I am afraid that the King of Qin and the Empress Dowager are cooperating internally and externally, planning something event."

Zhong Ning's anger calmed down a little, and he fell into deep thought: "Even if it's not a conspiracy, it must not be a good thing to let her kill someone to silence her. Aohan, do you think I'm really too soft-hearted?"

Long Aohan frowned even tighter: "Brother, you are not being soft-hearted, you are just taking care of the overall situation."

Mo Shengxiao also said: "The old hag has tried to damage your reputation as much as possible these years. If the elder brother is in power, she kills the mother and the brother, and it is bound to leave a cruel image in the hearts of the people. After all, the people know the battle that day. , It’s not a battle for power, it’s just that the two countries broke peace because of the marriage. They have no name for treason, how can you condemn them to death.”

Zhong Ning caressed his forehead: "I really regret it. Even if the image of a tyrant is cast down that day, and he works hard and loves the people in the future, it will be easy to make up for it. How could it become like this? How many people died inside and outside the imperial city? How many of these people are innocent?" people."

Looking at Zhong Ning like this, Meng Baiyun really felt that he was working hard.

Being foolish is just his appearance. In fact, he cares about the world and the people. He is a good emperor.

But in history, a good emperor is the most difficult to be.

"Your Majesty." Meng Baiyun comforted him, "Even if you were to kill the King of Qin and the Queen Mother that day, you might not succeed. The King of Qin's collusion with Riyue Island may not be a matter of a day or two. A member of Riyue Island, they will definitely come to the rescue. If Riyue Island really came to rescue King Qin at that time, Chang'an City, which had just been severely damaged by the war, would be even more miserable."

Knowing that she said this to comfort himself, Zhong Ning also felt better.

Looking at Meng Baiyun, his eyes were full of admiration.

"Baiyun, you are just a woman. If you were a man, I would definitely give you a prime minister. He is skilled in medicine and resourceful. In today's matter, Lixiang died, and the assassin refused to speak. If it weren't for you, this matter This matter will definitely cause panic in the palace again."

Meng Baiyun is modest: "I have seen many people of the third, sixth and ninth grades, so I can tell at a glance what kind of life this person is living. The maids of the Yeting Palace have delicate skin, and the hair oil they use is top quality. Wait, the ten fingers are all pinholes, and they are doing rough work, but they are fair and delicate. Most importantly, a mere maid from Ye Ting Palace dares to steal the clothes of a beautiful woman. These are enough to prove that she is very beautiful. Ordinary people. Now that the emperor knows that she belongs to the empress dowager, what is his plan?"

"Now that I know, I will release some news to make her panic."

Long Aohan seemed to have guessed Zhong Ning's thoughts: "Does the emperor intend to let the news about the collusion between King Qin and Riyue Island come out?"

King Qin colluded with Riyue Island, and after Meng Baiyun told Long Aohan, Long Aohan told Zhong Ning.

So far, very few people know about this matter, only a few of them in the room.

Is it really good to let the wind out?

Once the news is released, the next step is to order the siege of Prince Qin's mansion. Zhong Yu will not sit still and will definitely run away.

He is still under house arrest, and he is secretly manipulating Riyue Island. In order to hide his identity, he will not dare to be too blatant.

Once it turns from the dark to the bright, the Second Power Seizure War is bound to start in earnest.

Zhong Ning said that because he was ready for battle, right?

But I heard Zhong Ning say: "Once this wind blows, I will no longer have to worry about anything else. I will kill the Empress Dowager and King Qin for the crime of colluding with the party, harming the people, and plotting rebellion. Zhong Yu is outside the palace. It's easy to escape, but the queen mother is in the palace, he won't leave her alone, I will set up a net to wait for him, to see if he wants this country or his mother."

Um, Meng Baiyun is indeed inferior to them, she has forgotten that there is such a thing as a queen mother.

Zhong Yu's filial piety is also well-known, just take Meng Baiyun's case as an example, he loves her so much that he refuses to let go, which shows how deep and heavy the love is, but back then the Queen Mother betrothed Meng Baiyun to Long Ao Cold, he couldn't resist it.

Using the empress dowager to catch Zhong Yu will most likely succeed.

It seemed that Zhong Ning was really annoyed. Today's Lixiang was just a trigger. He might have been smoldering in his mind for a long time when the Lantern Festival fell, a fake show girl was assassinated, and there were thirty or forty face-skinning cases in Chang'an City.

Now that the Empress Dowager is actually buying maids under his nose, training assassins, and committing crimes in broad daylight, Zhong Ning's pent-up anger explodes in an instant, and he plans to launch a fatal counterattack.

In fact, this is a bit of a military move.

It is very likely that Zhong Yu abandoned his pawn to save the car, and even ignored his own mother for the sake of the country.

That was the ending that Meng Baiyun had envisioned before. Zhong Yu fled, and the secret war turned into an open war. The emperor lost his control over Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu is no longer the Zhong Yu that Meng Baiyun knew, once he no longer wears a disguise, who knows what he will do.

(End of this chapter)